Brautigan, Richard Gary (1935–1984)

US novelist. He lived in San Francisco, the setting for many of his playfully inventive and humorous short fictions, often written as deadpan parodies. He became a cult figure in the late 1960s with such works as A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964), his best-seller Trout Fishing in America (1967), and In Watermelon Sugar (1968). His last novels, before committing suicide, were The Tokyo–Montana Express (1980) and So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away (1982).